Private Prison Guards Contracted by ICE Retaliate Against Immigrants for Protesting Abuse and Neglect Inside New California City Immigrant Detention Center
For Immediate Release
September 19, 2025
Media Contacts:
Alex Mensing, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, alex[@]ccijustice.org, 415-684-5463
Marcela Hernandez, Detention Watch Network, mhernandez[@]detentionwatchnetwork.org, 626-260-8003
Eunice Hernandez Chenier, Pangea Legal Services, eunice[@]pangealegal.org, 415-404-8057
Private Prison Guards Contracted by ICE Retaliate Against Immigrants for Protesting Abuse and Neglect Inside New California City Immigrant Detention Center
Detained immigrants report guards entered their cell blocks wearing riot gear and arresting several protesters
California City, CA – Immigrants who launched protests last night inside the California City Immigration Detention Center are already facing retaliation from guards with the private prison company CoreCivic that operates the facility for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Yesterday, over 100 immigrants detained at the California City ICE Detention Center launched a peaceful collective action, including sit-ins and meal refusals, to protest severe abuse and neglect.
Immigrants in one cell block area reported officers entered in riot gear and were threatening use of force if the detained people peacefully engaging in a sit-in did not return to their cells. At least one housing unit reported being placed on a multi-day lockdown and does not have access to telephones, which violates their First Amendment and Fifth Amendment due process rights.
Furthermore, at least four individuals across multiple pods were reportedly handcuffed and taken to solitary confinement.
One individual requested toilet paper from a CoreCivic officer and was denied because he was on a “hunger strike”.
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CoreCivic putting a housing unit on a multi-day lockdown and cutting phone access made me redo our local rapid-response sheet: I added columns for officer name, exact time, and whether phones were blocked, plus a tab for toilet-paper denials like the one tied to a hunger strike. I cross-checked formatting ideas against a few of the best AI tools for report cleanup, then shared the template with two legal observers.
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Riot gear in the cell block and the toilet-paper denial because someone was on hunger strike—those details make retaliation concrete. In our own organizing, the advice to file grievances first backfired; CoreCivic placed the whole unit on lockdown, phones cut. What worked instead was logging each officer, time, and denial in a shared worksheet for tracking detention retaliation reports before passing it to legal. California City shows why that record matters.
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